P095 Siblings and positive respiratory samples

Epidemiology and clinical outcome of virus-positive respiratory samples in ventilated patients: a prospective cohort study

INTRODUCTION Respiratory viruses are a major cause of respiratory tract infections. The prevalence of a virus-positive respiratory sample and its significance in patients requiring mechanical ventilation remain unknown. METHODS We conducted a cohort study in all consecutive adults ventilated for more than 48 hours admitted to a 22-bed medical intensive care unit during a 12-month period. Resp...

Aspergillus-positive lower respiratory tract samples in patients with the acute respiratory distress syndrome: a 10-year retrospective study

BACKGROUND The detection of Aspergillus spp. in endotracheal aspirate cultures of mechanically ventilated patients may reflect either colonization or infection. However, little is known about the prevalence and the impact on outcome of respiratory tract sample positive for Aspergillus during the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). METHODS We conducted a monocentric, retrospective stud...

Regular Grammatical Inference from Positive andNegative Samples

We recall brieey in this paper the formal theory of regular grammatical inference from positive and negative samples of the language to be learned. We state this problem as a search toward an optimal element in a boolean lattice built from the positive information. We explain how a genetic search technique may be applied to this problem and we introduce a new set of genetic operators. In view o...

Inferring Regular Trace Languages from Positive and Negative Samples

In this work, we give an algorithm that infers Regular Trace Languages. Trace languages can be seen as regular languages that are closed under a partial commutation relation called the independence relation. This algorithm is similar to the RPNI algorithm, but it is based on Asynchronous Cellular Automata. For this purpose, we define Asynchronous Cellular Moore Machines and implement the merge ...

C. trachomatis positive samples comprising seven vaginal swabs and three urine samples